Red Hat quietly open sources Windows virtualisation drivers

[ Thanks to Inkslinger for this link. ]

"The netkvm driver is a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) miniport network driver for Windows guests and viostor is a Storport miniport driver, also for Windows guests.

"Windows Server 2003 and later operating systems support Storport, a storage port driver that is suitable for use with high-performance buses, such as fibre channel buses and RAID adapters, according to Microsoft."

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